Jeff Tedford said:
>I've heard it confidently stated,with the air of a known fact, that
>Beethoven was black. ...
I think at your academy they've got an outbreak of PC mania. Unless
radical new information has come up, Beethoven was as European as they
come - dutch ancestry, as far as I'm aware. I've never heard that any of
his forebears were ever either in Africa or in the New World, nor did I ever
hear the possibility of his being an illegitimate child; and I assume that
black people in 18th century Europe could probably be counted on the
fingers of one hand.
How do people get these crazy ideas?
Felix Delbruck
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